Cornelis Springer artwork • painting • previously for sale A snowy day in the Zuiderkerkstraat, Elburg
Cornelis Springer
Amsterdam 1817-1891 Hilversum
1817-1891
A snowy day in the Zuiderkerkstraat, Elburg
oil on panel 19.6 x 25.2 cm, signed l.r and dated '79
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Herkomst: C.M. Bodenheim, Amsterdam, van de schilder gekocht op 22 september 1879; part. bezit Zweden.
Literature: W. Laanstra e.a., 'Cornelis Springer (1817-1891)', Utrecht 1984, pag. 198, cat.nr. 79-4; 'Cornelis Springer, Geschilderde Steden', Amsterdam 1994, pag. 83 (afb. naar Cornelis Springer); vgl. Carla Rogge, 'In hoofdlijnen', 'Arent thoe Boecop' (uitgave Oudheidkundige Vereniging Elburg) 40 (1990), pag. 8, afb. van een voorstudie in houtskool, gedateerd 14 januari 1875; Arnold Ligthart, 'Door het oog van Cornelis Springer (1817-1891). Een ontdekkingstocht langs de steden rondom de Zuiderzee', Schiedam, 2015, pag. 122 en 125, afb. 158 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Enkhuizen, Zuiderzeemuseum, ‘Door het oog van Springer’, 12 december 2015-10 april 2016.
Cornelis Springer mainly painted town and village scenes in which facades and staffage are bathed in warm sunlight. Together with Barend Cornelis Koekkoek and Andreas Schelfhout, he belongs to the leading painters of Dutch Romanticism. Springer often assigns a prominent place to 17th and 18th century buildings in his paintings. Sometimes this is in the form of an imaginative piece of architecture, but in most cases these were existing buildings in which people rediscovered their beauty in around 1850. Springer first made a detailed sketch of these buildings which he later reworked into a painting.
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